municipal HDI is affected by low levels of per capita income and high poverty levels. Thus, the establishment of mechanisms that … increase the amount of income and combat poverty will allow the Michoacan society aspire to higher levels of human development … same time in the reduction of poverty, while the rest will have to increase their income levels and reduce poverty with the …

This review article presents the evolution of development theory during the XX century, the measurement of poverty, the … concept and the indices of multidimensional poverty. A special focus concerns the complex linkages between income inequality …, poverty and institutions during the growth process of developing countries. …

Chile provides an interesting setting to analyze vulnerability to poverty, especially today, after the last poverty … count presented in 2013 by the Ministry of Planning. After twenty years of declining poverty, national indicators showed an … increase in poverty from 13% in 2006 to 14% in 2011. Using the CASEN panel data set, this paper explores some of poverty …

This study examines the interactions among poverty, access to modern energy sources and gender in Nigeria. Descriptive … many countries of the world, both incidences of poverty and lack of access to modern energy sources are more pronounced …, that poverty reduces the odds in favor of having access to modern energy sources and while female headship of household …

This paper addresses a key issue in the current debate on economic development: the impact of globalization on poverty …. After having discussed the problems related to the definition and measurement of both poverty and globalization, we perform … a panel analysis which adds to recent literature by explicitly considering relative poverty and by conducting robustness …

This paper jointly and separately examines the redistributive and poverty effects of tax and public expenditures … sets of policies together, they are found to mainly reflect fiscal policies in that they are more progressive and poverty …-reducing when we use relative poverty lines, in rural areas, followed by semi-urban and urban areas, respectively. Though we also …

alarming with respect to economic well-being as the poverty level especially among the STs. Slow progress in expected change in …

This chapter was originally drafted in 2007 to inform the diagnostic of Liberia’s first Poverty Reduction Strategy. It … Statistics and Geo-Information Services. The chapter estimates the level of poverty and vulnerability in the country, provides a … profile of poverty, and analyzes the household level determinants or correlates of consumption and poverty. Slightly less than …

In the factors that affect income and poverty outcomes, there are some features unique to India. Caste, ethnicity …, religion and even regional origins all influence income outcomes. Therefore while examining individual poverty, the influence …